We Want Your Fan Art

[Batleth]

We Want Your Fan Art
Calling all Toontown artists! We have a brand new Fan Art section where you can view art created by players just like you.



Better yet, submit your own Toontown-themed art and show everyone that you are Toon enough!

Toon Artists of the World Unite!

[Trixie the cat]

OMG... wow! This is gonna be SO awesome! I can't wait to submit some of mine!

[ToonTaskTic]

I submitted one of my drawings

[Garfieldo]

I know many of you aren't really gonna care about all this legal stuff, but I just thought I'd go ahead and bring it up anyway, just in case.


(Don't worry, a translation will be given!)


Note: This is my personal interpretation of Disney's ToU and if it different in any way from the actual meaning of the original text, well, my bad!

Originally Posted by Toontown's Terms of Use

LICENSES AND REPRESENTATIONS

You hereby grant us and our licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, a perpetual, non-exclusive, irrevocable, fully-paid, royalty-free, sub-licensable and transferable (in whole or part) worldwide license under all copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy and publicity rights and other intellectual property rights you own or control to use, reproduce, transmit, display, exhibit, distribute, index, comment on, modify (including removing lyrics and music from any Submission or substituting the lyrics and music in any Submission with music and lyrics selected by us), create derivative works based upon, perform and otherwise exploit such Submissions, in whole or in part, in all media formats and channels now known or hereafter devised (including on WDIG Sites, on third party web sites, on our broadcast and cable networks and stations, on our broadband and wireless platforms, products and services, on physical media, and in theatrical release) for any and all purposes including entertainment, news, advertising, promotional, marketing, publicity, trade or commercial purposes, all without further notice to you, with or without attribution, and without the requirement of any permission from or payment to you or to any other person or entity (the "Submissions License").

By communicating a Submission, you represent and warrant that the Submission and your communication thereof conform to the Rules of Conduct (set forth below in Section 7 labeled "RULES OF CONDUCT")) and other requirements of these terms of use and that you own or have the necessary rights, licenses, consents and permissions, without the need for any permission from or payment to any other person or entity, to exploit, and to authorize us to exploit, such Submission in all manners contemplated by these terms of use (including the Submissions License). These terms of use (including the Submissions License) do not limit any past or future grant of rights, consents, agreements, assignments and waivers you may have made or make with respect to Submissions.

[Snipped 'cause it isn't relevant.]

To the extent that we solicit Submissions through features or activities on or through WDIG Sites (including games, sweepstakes, contests, promotions and Public Forums (defined below in Section 6, labeled "PUBLIC FORUMS AND COMMUNICATION")) that require the use of our copyrighted works (in whole or in part), we hereby grant you a non-exclusive license to create a derivative work using our copyrighted works (in whole or in part) as required (but only as required, and only for the purpose of creating your Submissions); provided however, that such license shall be conditioned upon your assignment of all rights in the work you create to us. If such rights are not assigned to us, your license to create derivative works using our copyrighted works (in whole or in part) shall be null and void. You agree to the foregoing grant of rights, consents, agreements and assignments whether or not your Submissions are used by us.

You hereby appoint us as your agent with full power to enter into and execute any document and/or do any act we may consider appropriate to confirm the grant of rights, consents, agreements, assignments and waivers set forth in these terms of use.

To the extent any "moral rights," "ancillary rights," or similar rights in or to the Submissions exist and are not exclusively owned by us, you agree not to enforce any such rights as to us or our licensees, distributors, agents, representatives and other authorized users, and you shall procure the same agreement not to enforce from any others who may possess such rights.

Without limiting the scope of the Submissions License or any future grant of rights, consents, agreements, assignments, and waivers you may make with respect to Submissions, you hereby ratify any prior grant of rights, consents, agreements, assignments and waivers made by you with respect to Submissions submitted by you to us.

If you send something to them, they can do whatever they want to it. They can change it, put it all over their website, showcase it on the Disney Channel, print 16,000 copies of it, and anything else that they may feel like doing with it- and they won't owe you a cent.

Your submission has to follow the Rules of Conduct (explained at the bottom of this post) . Also, you have to own the rights to it, meaning you can't use any drawings, paintings, photographs, or anything else made by anyone besides you in submission. That also means that you can't use copyrighted characters like Scooby-Doo or Spongebob.

You CAN use Disney's characters if they tell you that you can. Does this apply to the new website's fan art section? I dunno. You can see the TT logo and cogs in a couple of different pieces of art, but until we see someone like Mickey on there, there's no telling. BUT, if you DO use something that belongs to TT (and even if you don't, I'm not sure) , then hey-presto, you do not legally own the picture anymore. Disney owns all the rights to it and the characters in it (unless, possibly, you've already had said characters copyrighted) . If you don't like how they use your stuff, then tough. Oh, and all that applies even if they don't end up using your piece. Harsh, huh?

Originally Posted by Toontown's Rules of Conduct

The following Rules of Conduct apply to the WDIG Sites. By using the WDIG Sites, you agree that you will not Distribute any Submission that:

1. (a) is defamatory, abusive, harassing, threatening, or an invasion of a right of privacy of another person; (b) is bigoted, hateful, or racially or otherwise offensive; (c) is violent, [bad] or (d) otherwise harms or can reasonably be expected to harm any person or entity;
2. [Snipped to avoid problems with TTC's policies. Read it on TT's website if you're curious.]
3. infringes or violates any right of a third party including: (a) copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary or contractual rights; (b) right of privacy (specifically, you must not distribute another person's personal information of any kind without their express permission) or publicity; or (c) any confidentiality obligation;
4. is commercial, business-related or advertises or offers to sell any products, services or otherwise (whether or not for profit), or solicits others (including solicitations for contributions or donations);
5. contains a virus or other harmful component, or otherwise tampers with, impairs or damages the WDIG Sites or any connected network, or otherwise interferes with any person or entity's use or enjoyment of the WDIG Sites; or
6. (a) does not generally pertain to the designated topic or theme of the relevant Public Forum; (b) violates any specific restrictions applicable to a Public Forum, including its age restrictions and procedures; or (c) is antisocial, disruptive, or destructive, including "flaming," "spamming," "flooding," "trolling," and "griefing" as those terms are commonly understood and used on the Internet.

We cannot and do not assure that other users are or will be complying with the foregoing Rules of Conduct or any other provisions of these terms of use, and, as between you and us, you hereby assume all risk of harm or injury resulting from any such lack of compliance.

1. Be nice.
2. Don't break the law or do anything to make it look like breaking the law is a good thing.
3. Don't steal other peoples' stuff. Using a copyrighted/trademarked characters or words (like Animaniacs or Pokemon) counts as stealing.
4. Don't even try to make any money off've anythin'. Getting paid buckets cash is Disney's thing.
5. If you give Disney a virus, you're goin' down.
6. Observe proper forum etiquette. If it wouldn't be allowed on TTC, TT's certainly not gonna allow it.

If you follow the rules and nobody else does, then it's your problem and not theirs.

[The Iron Spider]

Thanks for the reminder, Garfieldo. It was possible that many of the people that just want their stuff on the site will forget to read the circled TMs,

[Dynaboom]

So, does all that legal stuff say you can't put disney characters on a disney fan art website? Or just "don't draw spongebob"?

I was thinking of putting this on the site.



I drew it myself, but the idea came from disney.

btw, can u notice the skelecog in the backround? (It was on the other side)

[Garfieldo]

Originally Posted by Dynaboom

So, does all that legal stuff say you can't put disney characters on a disney fan art website? Or just "don't draw spongebob"?

I was thinking of putting this on the site.

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I drew it myself, but the idea came from disney.

btw, can u notice the skelecog in the backround? (It was on the other side)

I think it's safe to say that they'll allow anything with characters that appear in Toontown; Flippy especially. Plus, even if you did end up submitting art with a Disney character in it that they don't want, I doubt there'd be any consequences besides your art not being put on the site. So go for it!

As for the skelecog, I would never have noticed it if you hadn't mentioned it.

(Nice drawing, by the way!)

[Millie]

YAY, finally! Now I don't have to leave my tablet around anymore! Now I can use things like the scanner, and then use GIMP for other things then graphics!
This is wonderful! I submitted some artwork to them yesterday.

[RobberBaron]

I'm dreaming. It's too good to be true.

Fan art without contests?!

[ImaToon3]

I submitted a toon with a doodle but they haven't put it up yet...

[Tooney]

I think only a few will get into that section. If you want a chanse, your drawing skills must be THIS good.



I really hate it when companies chose out poorly made stuff for their site. It's like the time Disney put in my horrible winnie the pooh drawing in a winnie the poog magazine. No offence to anyone.